Can candidates use generative AI during HSBC live or recorded interviews?
For HSBC, the current governed evidence establishes several scoped facts. HSBC states that candidates may use generative AI to research HSBC and roles, help structure a CV or application where the content accurately reflects their own experience and skills, prepare for interviews, and organise or draft ideas where the final submission remains genuinely their own. HSBC states that candidates must not use generative AI to generate responses during live or recorded interviews and must not submit work they cannot personally explain, validate or replicate if asked during recruitment.
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Governed evidence
SIG-177 · HSBC
HSBC states that candidates may use generative AI to research HSBC and roles, help structure a CV or application where the content accurately reflects their own experience and skills, prepare for interviews, and organise or draft ideas where the final submission remains genuinely their own.
Scope: Global · Recruitment process · observed 2026-09-13 · source record SRC-113
SIG-178 · HSBC
HSBC states that candidates must not use generative AI to generate responses during live or recorded interviews and must not submit work they cannot personally explain, validate or replicate if asked during recruitment.
Scope: Global · Recruitment interviews · observed 2026-09-13 · source record SRC-113
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30-question benchmark · source register · methodology
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Who Gets In? (Elite Careers Strategy), Can candidates use generative AI during HSBC live or recorded interviews?, revised 13 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/questions/can-candidates-use-generative-ai-during-hsbc-live-or-recorded-interviews/